Wall construction and the method of making the same



P. ORLANDO.

WALL CONSTRUCTION AND THE METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME.

APPLICATION FILED JULY-25, I919.

1333,8200 Patented Ma1'. 16, 192( /1 /5 E] now W01,

PAUL ORLANDO, OF NEW YORK, N. 'Y.

WALL CONSTRUCTION AND THnMETHon or MAKING THE SAME.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Mar. 16, 1920.

Application filed July 25, 1919. Serial No. 313,179.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, PAUL ORLANDO, a citizenof the United States, and residing at New York, in the county of NewYork and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Vail Con structions and the Methods of Making the Same,of which the following is a specification,.such as will enable thoseskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to an improved method of constructing walls ofbuildings boards or slab sections composed of cement or concretereinforced by a lath construction, which is embedded therein; a furtherobject being to provide boards or slab sectionsof various lengths,whereby the wall or walls of a building may be formed by using varioussizes of boards; and with these and other objects in view the inventionconsists in a cement lath board constructedin the manner herein shown,described and claimed.

The invention is fully disclosed inthe following specification, of whichthe accompanying drawing forms part, in which the separate parts of myimprovement are designated by suitable reference characters in each ofthe views, and in which;

Figure 1 is a face view of a part of a wall construction and indicatingthe method of constructing such wall with my improvedlath boards;

Fig. 2 a partial section on the line 22 of Fig. 1 and on an enlargedscale;

Fig. 3 a partial section on the line 33 of Fig. '1 and on an enlargedscale;

Fig. 4: a partial section on the line 47-4 of Fig. 1 and on an enlargedscale; and,

Fig. 5 a detail plan view of one end portion of the lath-work which Iemploy in making my improved cement lath board. In the practice of myinvention and in constructing a cement lath board I first make up orformthe lath construction of such board in the manner illustrated in Fig.5by first placing a plurality of transverse strips 10, preferably four innumber, upon a smooth surface, but only two of these strips are shown inFig. 5. -I then attach a plu- I rality of longitudinally arranged lathstrips 11 to the transverse strips 10 in the manner shown in Fig. 5, thestrips. 11 being also ten in number and being so formed to the strips 10as to form a I plurality of longitudinal spaces 12 therebetween.

-The strips 10 are preferably placed sixteen inches apart from center tocenter thusbringing the ends of the lath strips 11, which areforty-eight inches long, centrally of the end strips 10 as is indicatedat the left of Fig.5, .and as is also illustrated in Fig. 1 of thedrawing. In this way the standard lengths of lath strips may be. usedwhile the strips 10 are preferably twenty-four inches long, which isone-half the length of a standard lath strip.

After the framework or lath construction as shown in Fig. 5 has beencompleted, this framework is'laid upon a suitable table or support withthe strips 10 facing downwardly, as is illustrated in Fig. 5, and.cement is applied to the top thereof by a trowel or other implement inthe usual manner to' fill the spaces 12 between the lath strips 11 asshown at 13 in Fig. 3 of the drawing, as well as to fill the spaces inback of such strips and between the strips 10 as indicated at 14 in Fig.3, and the top faces of the lath strips 11 between the strips 10 arealso covered by cement as shown at 15 in Fig. 3. In this last operationit will be understood that a number of supplemental strips, not

shown, will be placed above the strips 10 and in common alinementtherewith to prevent the cement from covering the top faces completeboards or slab sections 17 being 'shown in Fig. 1 of the drawing.

The object in providing the grooves 16 in the boards 17 centrallythereof and at the opposite ends thereof, is to provide means wherebysuch boards may be attached to the .main upright frame members 18 of abuilding by a plurality of nails 19 passed through the strips 10 and 11of the boards 17 within the grooves 16. 4

In the accompanying drawing I have. shown the nails 19 passing througheach of the strips 11 and 10, but it will be apparent that this is notessential as onlya suflicient number of the nails 19 need employed toproperly secure the boards 17 to the uprights 18.

strips 10, or the, end

i the wall construction,

It will be apparent on a consideration of Figs. 1, 3, i and5 of thedrawing that the portions thereof,- 02(- tend beyond the top and bottomlongitudi-. nal lath strips 11 as shown at 20 so that when one board 17is placed upon another in the manner shown in Fig. 1, a longitudinalaperture or apertures 21 areforn'ied between the separate boards and infinishing and after all of the boards 17 have been secured in position athin coating of cement. plaster or the like is applied thereto to fillup the grooves 16 and apertures 21 as is indicated in dotted lines at 22and 23 in l! 2 of the'draivinga It will be understood that my improvedwall construction may be used on both the inner and outer sides of theupright members 18 to form theinner and outer walls of -a buildin theouter wall being indicated at 2,, 2a in Fig. 2 and the inner wall at 25,and in'applying the coatings indicated in dotted lines at 22 and cementor concrete will be used on the outer wall 24, as shown at 22 to form astucco or other outer wall construction, while plaster or similarmaterial -will be employed as the facing indicated at 23 on the innerwall 25. v

As hereinbefore stated,.1 have shown in Fig. 1 of the drawing, twocement lath boards 17 composed of three cement sections 26; 27, "2S,made'in the manner hereinbefore set out, but it will be understood thatI may 'alsomake up single boards as shown at 29 in Fig. 1 of thedrawing, or said boards may be made up into two sections, if desired, oreven a greater number of sections than three, but it is believed thatthe three sections will be.

the preferable. form of constructing the boards 17 in view of thestandard lengths of the lath strips 11 which I prefer to use.

My improved cement or concrete lath board will greatly reduce the costof constructing both the inner and outer walls, of

buildings of various kinds andclasses and, in addition. will produce awall of better strength, and which will be less subject to cracking orother break-downs as is usual with walls ,as now constructed. It isalso" apparentthat by making up these boards in arious sizes in asuitable shop or workplace, and shipping'them to the point desired intheir completely manufactured state, all that will beessential informing the walls of a building will be to space the separate boards17,- c0mposed. of any number of sections on the uprights 18 and securethe same thereto in the manner hereinbefore set out. after which thefacings 22 and 23 arc-applied in the usual manner. lVhile I have showncertain details of construction for-carrying my 6 5 invention intoeffect and one method of connecting the boards, or mounting the samein 1. The herein described method of making cement boards or slabs whichconsists in first providing a lath framework consistin of a plurality oflongitiulinally arranged and spaced lath strips secured to transverselyarranged and spaced strips and then applying cement to the lathframework thus "formed toembed the longitudinal lath strips betweensaid' transverse strips within said cement and to form where thetransverse strips are secured to said'longitudinal strips a plurality oftransverse grooves.

The herein described method ofinakingcement boards or slabs whichconsists in first providing a lath framework consisting of a pluralityof longitudiiuilly arranged and spaced lath strips secured totransversely arranged and spaced strips and cement to the lath frameworkthus formed to embed the longitudinal lath strips between saidtransverse stripswitliin said cement and to, form where the transversestrlps are secured to said longitudinal strips a plurality of transversegrooves which divides the board or slab into a plurality of reinforcedeem'ent sections.

3. The herein described method of making cement boards or slabs whichconsistsin first providing a lath framework consisting-of a plurality oflongitudinally arranged and spaced lath strips secured to transverselyarranged and spaced strips and then embedding that part of thelongitudinal lath strips between said transverse strips within a ce mentbody and covering .that part of thetransverse strip between saidlongitudinal strips with cement.

4. A board oi-slab of the class described composed of a cementsection'reinforced by a plurality oflongitudinally arranged and spacedstrips the ends of. said strips being then applying secmredtotransversely arranged strips at the opposite sides of and projectingbeyond said cement section.

5-. A board or slab of the class described composed of a plurality ofcement sections reinforced by a plurality of longitudinally arranged andspaced strips, said strips be: ing secured to transversely arrangedstrips at the opposite sides of and. projecting be-- yond each of saidcement sections.

6. A board or slab of the class described composed of a plurality oflongitudinally arranged and spaced lath strips, a pluralityof transversestrips spaced longitudinally bf In testimony that I claim the foregoingas said first named strips and to which said my invention I have signedmy, name in 10 first named strips are secured, the longitudipresence ofthe subscribing Witnesses this nztlly arranged lath strips between said23rd day of July, 1919;

transverse strips being embedded in a ce- PAUL ORLANDO. inent. mixture,and the transverse strip be- Witnesses: tween said longitudinal stripbeing covered C. E. MULREANY,

with a cement mixture. H. E. THOMPSON.

